Dischistodus perspicillatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Family: | Pomacentridae |
Genus: | Dischistodus |
Species: | D. perspicillatus |
Binomial name | |
Dischistodus perspicillatus (Cuvier, 1830) | |
Synonyms | |
Dischistodus perspicillatus, commonly known as the white damsel, is a species of fish native to the Andaman Sea and eastern Indian Ocean. [1]
This species reaches a length of 18.0 cm (7.1 in). [2]
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The spectacled cormorant or Pallas's cormorant is an extinct marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabited Bering Island and possibly other places in the Komandorski Islands and the nearby coast of Kamchatka in the far northeast of Russia. The modern distribution was shown to be a relic of a wider prehistoric distribution in 2018 when fossils of the species from 120,000 years ago were found in Japan. It is the largest species of cormorant known to have existed.
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Dischistodus is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae. It has seven described species.
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Chlorurus perspicillatus, known officially by the English name, spectacled parrotfish, given by professional ichthyologists and Ichthyology or uhu-uliuli as a well-established Hawaiian name for many hundreds of years, is a species of marine fish in the family Scaridae. Found only in Eastern Central Pacific Hawaiian Islands, it inhabits lagoons and seaward reefs
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